[Flightgear-devel] dc3 wing twist in yasim?

2003-08-08 Thread Dave Perry
David Megginson writes: Monday evening I updated SimGear, the source, and data from cvs. The dc3.xml file in Aicraft-yasim was changed for the worse (IMHO). I'll be happy to put it back to what it was, but it might be better if you could spend a little time fiddling with the XML file so

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2 screenshots

2003-08-08 Thread Matevz Jekovec
Lee Elliott wrote: On Thursday 07 August 2003 20:14, Matevz Jekovec wrote: I downloaded the latest CVS version of FlightGear and took an evening flight from Ljubljana airport (LJLJ) in Slovenia around. The framerate was from 13-15 FPS, I had no CTDs and new lighting effects are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] request for comments?

2003-08-08 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 11:23:07 -0500 Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but it may give us many more options for moving forward with new and better graphic effects. My uneducated, gut feeling, leads me to opt for the route that gives the most promise for the future. Jon

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CYTZ and CN Tower

2003-08-08 Thread Erik Hofman
David Megginson wrote: Here's a JPEG of the default 172 finishing a landing roll at CYTZ Toronto/City Centre (aka Toronto Island) with the CN Tower in the background: http://www.megginson.com/flightsim/cytz.jpg Nice picture! There is nowhere obvious to put this right now, but if anyone is

Re: [Flightgear-devel] YASim Propeller Drag

2003-08-08 Thread Jon S Berndt
On Wed, 6 Aug 2003 17:41:33 -0400 David Megginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you are flying fast enough (i.e. a dive). Any suggestions? JSBSim does not handle windmilling properly either. Any suggestions? Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 747 engines: fuel consumption

2003-08-08 Thread Jim Wilson
Major A [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If we're already talking about engines: has anyone looked at the 747 fuel consumption yet? The 747-yasim model seems to need way too much fuel. Even if I increase the fuel fraction to 1.0 in the XML file I'm unable to fly the plane across the Atlantic

[Flightgear-devel] confstat

2003-08-08 Thread Jon Berndt
Can anyone tell me what the confstatX directories I keep getting in my build directories is? Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

[Flightgear-devel] dc3 wing twist in yasim?

2003-08-08 Thread Dave Perry
Dave Perry wrote (but never attached the file): David Megginson writes: Monday evening I updated SimGear, the source, and data from cvs. The dc3.xml file in Aicraft-yasim was changed for the worse (IMHO). I'll be happy to put it back to what it was, but it might be better if you could spend

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CYTZ and CN Tower

2003-08-08 Thread Frederic BOUVIER
Lee Elliott wrote: There is nowhere obvious to put this right now, but if anyone is interested, I'll be happy to send the appropriate files privately. It will work best with the w080n40 scenery at http://www.randdtechnologies.com/fgfs/newScenery/world-scenery.html Perhaps we need

RE: RFD: Landmarks and scenery (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] CYTZ andCNTower)

2003-08-08 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Norman Vine writes: I am wondering what having multiple paths to search will do for 'stutter' and as far as LandMarks go I can't really see why they don't just go in the standard scenery file as since they are LandMarks they probably only apply to one location :-) It's more of an

Re: RFD: Landmarks and scenery (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] CYTZ andCNTower)

2003-08-08 Thread Lee Elliott
On Friday 08 August 2003 20:18, Norman Vine wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Curtis L. Olson Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 2:38 PM To: FlightGear developers discussions Subject: Re: RFD: Landmarks and scenery (was Re:

RE: RFD: Landmarks and scenery (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] CYTZ andCNTower)

2003-08-08 Thread David Megginson
Curtis L. Olson writes: and as far as LandMarks go I can't really see why they don't just go in the standard scenery file as since they are LandMarks they probably only apply to one location :-) It's more of an administrative convenience, not strictly necessary, but useful for

Re: RFD: Landmarks and scenery (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] CYTZ and CNTower)

2003-08-08 Thread David Megginson
Curtis L. Olson writes: I know what you are saying, but this may not be possible if the path needs to be set systemwide for a multi-platform installation. Or if it goes in the preferences.xml file or something like that. We really could use a universal, platform independent delimeter in

Re: [Flightgear-devel] New key bindings for managing the views

2003-08-08 Thread Matevz Jekovec
as long as you use FlightGear everyday. Probably I don't represent the 'average' FlightGear user so my opinion might not be everyone's. Still I have to say that for _me_ it's far to complex. I don't see FlightGear as a 'game' with thousands of views but more as a simulator that

Re: RFD: Landmarks and scenery (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] CYTZand CN Tower)

2003-08-08 Thread kreuzritter2000
Matevz Jekovec wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like that idea. I have also a question: Why do we use /usr/local/Flightgear as directory and not /usr/local/games/Flightgear ? I would prefer /usr/local/games/Flightgear for everything, the scenery, the game data and the runtime binary

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Multiplayer Network Server

2003-08-08 Thread Matevz Jekovec
I've thought in terms of a server that could manage a high volume of aircraft. It would send back the locations of only the closest/visible aircraft and not the entire set. We had a so called bubble surrounding the aircraft in Falcon. And we had 2 types of units: aggregated and deaggregated.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CYTZ and CN Tower

2003-08-08 Thread Lee Elliott
On Friday 08 August 2003 03:37, David Megginson wrote: Here's a JPEG of the default 172 finishing a landing roll at CYTZ Toronto/City Centre (aka Toronto Island) with the CN Tower in the background: http://www.megginson.com/flightsim/cytz.jpg That looks pretty good - I want one:) I

Re: RFD: Landmarks and scenery (was Re: [Flightgear-devel] CYTZ andCN Tower)

2003-08-08 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 01:15:11 +0200, Matevz Jekovec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've seen some Linux distros not having /usr/*local*/bin in their path. (only /bin and /usr/bin for ordanary user). What is the main difference between /usr/local/something and

[Flightgear-devel] scenery doesn't load after cvs update

2003-08-08 Thread Alex Romosan
today's cvs update seems to have broken the loading of the scenery. does anybody else see this? --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to